Secured Document Sharing – Is it Possible?

In most circumstances publishers seek to use mechanisms that will help to stop forwarding of their documents. However, to merely stop sharing is not a comprehensive approach because there are circumstances where we need to share our documents, say for feedback purposes. For such situations we need a system that can guarantee secured document sharing such that it will regulate what users can do with documents.

Encrypting documents cannot stop forwarding because once a document is decrypted the unprotected version can easily be distributed to others. A document security system such as that from LockLizard.com, i.e. Safeguard PDF Security, does not only stop sharing but it also regulates the document functions available to the user thanks to its intertwined DRM control mechanism. This system sustains secured document sharing by locking files to individual computers so that access is only possible for authorized users.

About Copy Protection in Documentation Security Systems

In an effort to prevent the abuse of PDF documents, publishers are increasingly looking to document security systems to ensure that they get full value for their creative works. Top on the list for each system is that it should provide adequate copy protection considering that duplication is the easiest way to pirate documents.

We should appreciate that document encryption will not be sufficient in securing content since once the authorized user decrypts the document he/she can do anything with it besides just making copies. However, the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) controls can effectively address this vulnerability and as such any document security tool worth its salt must feature aspects of encryption and DRM controls.

It also suggested that these systems should feature a disable paste function in addition to the copy protection mechanism. However, a system that can adequately prevent copying should not need a disable paste mechanism because in the first place if you cannot copy a document then surely there will be nothing to paste!

Web Content Protection Software – The Complete Anti Piracy Solution

LockLizard provides various comprehensive web content protection solutions that you may need, from controlling viewing, modifying, copying, and saving content, to even disabling printing. It offers refined controls such as how many times your content can be printed or viewed, and whether it can be viewed offline and for how long/number of days. This is powerful anti piracy software as it is able to inhibit the use of screen grabbers and Windows print screen, printing to file, PDF format, email, or other image printers.

The LockLizard web content protection application prevents the sharing of your web content as users must first register with you in order to obtain their license and decryption keys. What’s more, decryption keys are transparently relayed to the client keystore and are locked to individual computers to prevent sharing. This anti piracy software gives you the ability to expire or revoke access to web content no matter where it resides, immediately after you detect unauthorized use, once view limits are reached, or once an expiry date is reached.

There are also a host of other functions included in this software that you will find very useful for the purposes of managing and protecting your web content.

Digital Rights Management DRM Security – A Short Excerpt

Digital Rights Management DRM draws its essence from intellectual property rights (IPR) or copyrights whereby there are laws that see to it that copyright owners are paid for the use of their creative works such as films, pictures, music, plays, books and so forth. DRM in relation to IPR is therefore about the measures that are taken by a copyright owner to ensure that his/her creative is not abused to the effect that he/she will not receive his/her due royalties. DRM security is therefore all about protecting any intellectual property that is held and processed by computers or indeed anything else that can process CD-ROM, DVD, VCR, cassette tapes, flashcards and so forth.

Digital Rights Management DRM in relation to IT controls seeks to provide fine-grained controls with regards to reading a copyrighted item (how many times, start and end dates for reading), printing (if allowed, number of copies, poor quality copies to discourage copying), altering (changing the content, removing copyright marks), copying (making copies, copying certain portions, taking screenshots), and running the item as a program (run on one computer, only one user to run it, number of PCs the item can use). DRM security systems use cryptography to enforce these controls which are transparent to the user, and cannot be modified.

Digital Copy Protection Software – Protect your document rights

Every company has data, files or images that are central to its day-to-day operations and as such these must be kept away from unauthorized persons. While it is impossible to stop copies from being made you can rely on digital copy protection software such as that from locklizard.com, which uses encryption and digital rights management (DRM) controls to regulate the access and usage of documents and content. This software will see to it that your document rights won’t be abused as the media will only be accessible to authorized users.

DRM controls available with LockLizard digital copy protection software, include watermarks that personalize such files and/or their copies/printouts with your details and/or those of the person responsible for reproducing them - thus preventing or reducing the desire of authorized persons to share the protected materials that they are linked to.

LockLizard document rights software is easy to use, pocket-friendly and secure, and as such its use will not be an inconvenience either for you or your customers.

Adobe eBook and PDF Document Protection Software

Safeguard PDF Security from locklizard.com provides comprehensive PDF document DRM controls for the protection of your adobe eBook publications. Some of the controls that Safeguard provides include protection against unauthorized document viewing, printing, copying, modifying, sharing, saving and screenshots, as well as printing to file, image printers or PDF format. In addition to these capabilities the software lets you decide on when your documents will no longer be viewable, whether they are viewable offline or only online and in thin client or virtual environments, and when client accounts expire.

This adobe eBook security platform is facilitated via a multi-tiered protective system that is not based on passwords. For clients to view or access your PDF documents that are protected with Safeguard they are required to have the Secure PDF Viewer that LockLizard provides. It is through this viewer that Safeguard is able to implement the PDF encryption and all the DRM controls that have been set on a protected PDF document.

Secured document sharing with LockLizard Security Software

Document security software is required to protect our eBooks, html web content, PowerPoint slides and swf files among other file types from unauthorized viewing, modification or sharing, and even getting stolen. For secured document sharing to take place we cannot solely rely on encryption because once the document is decrypted users can do anything with our documents including forwarding, copying and printing, as well as other file processes. This is why we need DRM controls in addition to encryption to ensure that users are discouraged from sharing our protected documents that only they are authorized to use.

www.LockLizard.com document security software brings forth a way to help enforce secured document sharing through a secure watermarking feature, which works by personalizing documents. Here, any viewed or printed content will contain watermarks bearing details of the person culpable in allowing the illegal document sharing. In addition to watermarks the software allows the document owner to restrict the number of times that the protected document can be printed.